Sunday, 11 February 2018

Mother Quotes - Mom Quotes

Best Quotes For Mother

“I think every working mom probably feels the same thing: You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible — oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.”

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”

“[Motherhood is] ‘heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.'”

“The films I’ve made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.”

“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”

“If I’ve learned anything as a mom with a daughter who’s three, I’ve learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It’s hard to be a mom.”

“When I had my first child I thought, ‘This is the best-kept secret.’ You know how parents rattle on to you about, ‘Oh, you won’t believe your life will never be the same,’ and da, da, da and you think, ‘Why can’t these people just get over it? All they’re doing is yakking on about their kids. It’s such a bore.’ And then you have kids and you just want to do all the same things.”

“She drove me to ballet class…and she took me to every audition. She’d be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that’s why this [award] is for her. She’s a wonderful mother.”

“My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that’s gotta be your hero.”

“[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.”

“[What’s beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She’s got a sparkle.”

“My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, ‘Happiness is your own responsibility.’ That’s probably what I quote from her and live by the most.”

“We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice … She’s always encouraged me, and she’s still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness

“My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, ‘I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.

“In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard, and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she’s here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.”

“You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.”

“My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.”

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”

“[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary—it’s an act of infinite optimism.”

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great—but how to laugh through it.”

“I don’t know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I’m always plagued with, did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction? But I also know that my entire life revolves around [my son] Louis.”

“Because I feel that, in the Heavens above / The angels, whispering to one another, / Can find, among their burning terms of love / None so devotional as that of ‘Mother'”

“There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation’s most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”

“I finally understand / for a woman it ain’t easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There’s no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated”

“You showed me when I was young just how to grow / You showed me everything that I should know / You showed me just how to walk without your hands / Cuz mom you always were the perfect fan”

“I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine / This little light of mine, I’m feelin’ let it shine / I’m feelin’ take y’all back to them better times/ I’m feelin’ talk about my mama if y’all don’t mind”

“Never gonna go a day without you / Fills me up just thinking about you / I’ll never go a day without my mama”

“Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You’ve given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life”

“My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family’s life and experience. She is one strong lady.”

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

“I remember being seven and asking my mom if I was as pretty as Monique [my best friend in grade school]. And with all the love in the world, my mom looked at me and said, “Oh, honey, you’re so funny.’ So, she doesn’t lie to me…she answers the question by not answering and instead tells me what she thinks is my greatest strength

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”

“My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was 6 and my brother was 8; I never forgot it.” —

“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.”

“It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.”

“When they’ve finished reading, Olivia’s mother gives her a kiss and says, ‘You know, you really wear me out. But I love you anyway.’ And Olivia gives her a kiss back and says, ‘I love you anyway too.'”

“My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.”

“[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.”

“My mother … had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It’s extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.”

“I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.’”

“I’m still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.”

“My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote.”

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

“I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I’m more womanly. I feel sexier

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.”

“I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.”

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”

“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”

“When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.”

“Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.”

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”

“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

“Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.”

“If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.”

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

“Most people’s mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That’s more important

“My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She’s done everything for me to make my dreams come true.”

“My mother is everything to me. She’s my anchor, she’s the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.

“There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always

“I don’t think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

“There’s no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.

“I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.

“It’s been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom … I don’t know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.”

“The best part of having two babies at once, a son and a daughter, is mostly everything. You’re just having that feeling of love inside you all the time and motherhood is such a fulfilling place to be. I kind of wish it would have happened to me earlier in my life.

“[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it’s made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

“You instantly become less selfish. You can’t be the biggest person in the world anymore—they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”

“It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.”

There’s something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you’re holding them. They’ve been safe inside your belly for almost 10 months, and now they’re in your arms. Intuition kicks in, where you will do anything for them and you have all the tools inside of you to take care of them.”

“Don’t listen to anyone’s advice. Listen to your baby … There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, ‘You don’t need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.’”

“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.”

“Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.”

“My mother is a walking miracle.”

“I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.”

“Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it’s just as important to sit down and ask my son how he’s feeling or talk to him about life.”